Can't float control panel in InDesign

I have an external monitor connected to my laptop. I cannot drag the entirety of Indesign (or Illustrator) for that matter onto my other screen. It's impossible to work, because I can only move the artboard, and have to move my cursor to an entirely different screen to use tools. I have read everything about the control panel and docking, and the "float" on the menu does nothing. InDesign and Illustrator became permanently docked to my laptop after an update. Photoshop does not do this. PLEASE HELP! I need this to work!

I can't even drag the window around in one laptop screen. I feel like this is a setting issue and not an actual bug, but changing to "float" under the control panel menu does nothing.
In Photoshop I have my menu bar that I can drag around the entire window with and has the close/minimize/restore buttons on it. In InDesign the only thing I can move are windows (like Layers, Character, etc) and the window containing my art.

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